Champagne and Tuscany new destinations – plus classic Bordeaux – on BKWine 2012 wine and food travel program To go on a wine tour in spring time is quite different from travelling in the autumn.
A traveller, or actually a couple, who travelled with us on one of our wine tours this past autumn, to Portugal and the Douro sent us a short mail: We have to express our great
On our upcoming wine tour to South Africa (sold out this year – let us know if you are interested for next year) we have extended the wine regions we visit from “the usual”. Instead
A while back we received a short enthusiastic email from one of our guests on the wine tour to Piemonte that we had this autumn. The tour was in October and included several wine visits
A tailor made tour with The Priory Five days in Champagne, Chablis and Burgundy, is a wine tour that we call The Three Classics. It is one of the most popular tours on our “public”
It is now high time (after a hectic season!) that we sit down and collect all the comments that we have had about this autumn’s wine tours. Here is one from Ninni who, with her
A few weeks back we had a custom made wine tour to Burgundy. A small group of wine enthusiasts traveled around the vineyards in Burgundy and tasted many good wines and enjoyed some delicious gourmet
Jon and Anne from Norway participated in our wine tour to Veneto in northern Italy, out of Verona, earlier this season. The tour included visits and tastings of Valpolicella, Soave, Bardolino and Amarone and some
“A Champagne Weekend” is the title of an article that recently appeared in Sweden’s biggest evening newspaper (in the travel section of Aftonbladet: “Aftonbladet Resa Weekend” on September 14, 2011). It is a story of
On our wine tours we meet many winemakers and visit a lot of vineyards. It adds up to around 200-300 vineyards each year for Britt & Per, without counting those that Asa, Martin and the
Svenska Dagbladet is one of the biggest Swedish national daily newspapers. In their Sunday edition they had an article on wine tourism and wine travel in which they mention BKWine. The title of the article
Steenberg Vineyards Winery is one of the wine producers that we have had on our trip schedule for our wine tour to South Africa. When we were that last we had the occasion to make
Solo Italia is a new Swedish magazine about Italy: “food, wine, travel, people, culture” is their tag line. In the very first issue the very first article talks about … BKWine’s wine and food tours
“For the first time in world history” (as one might say) South Africa organises a wine tourism show. It is called Vindaba and takes place on September 26-27 this year, in parallel to Cape Wine,
Alentejo is a wine region in Portugal that has gone through a revolution in recent decades. From having been a remote and very rural region east of Lisbon it has become one of the wine
Bordeaux is one of the classic wine tour destinations, always in great demand. Catalonia in north-eastern Spain is, perhaps surprisingly, more of a niche destination. We have wine tours to Bordeaux on a very regular
A colleague in the wine business with a sharp eye, who happens to be Australian, spotted a mention of BKWine in Gourmet Traveller Wine in their May/June 2011 issue. Gourmet Traveller Wine is an Australian
Jancis Robinson is one of the world’s most famous wine writers and probably one of the most travelled too so she has seen a few wine regions. In a recent posting on her site she
Austria is one of those wine regions that when you go there you think “why didn’t I come here before?” Not only has it excellent wines, both white and red but it has beautiful scenery
Monica and Jorgen F travelled with BKWine to Italy, visiting Piedmont and Veneto. The wine tour included visits and tastings at a number of the top producers in Barolo that underlined what wonderful wines they
We have a wine tour planned for Croatia this autumn so we’re constantly keeping a lookout for new information about Croatian wines. They are not very well known internationally but will probably gain a better
When someone writes about our wine tours it is usually by chance that we find out about it. In this case the author actually told us herself, and we are very grateful to Clare Walters
It always makes us happy when someone sends us an email after having been to one of our tours. It is of course especially nice if we get some positive feedback and accolade! Christina and
Sometimes it is a bit surprising how interviews turn out once they end up in print, as this article in the Daily Herald: Sturdy shoes essential to wine tour success, where they interviewed Britt of
“The European forum for wine roads and for local economic development” is the long name of a conference on wine tourism, or oenotoursim as they say in France. It will be attended by a number
